I suspect it is a change in one of the CPAN index files that occurred today that is causing your problems.

You could turn on verbosity, just to be sure

CPAN Terminal> s conf verbose 1

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If it is as I suspect, then upgrading to the fixed version of CPANPLUS (0.9136) I released today should solve the problem

C:\> lwp-mirror http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-0.
+9136.tar.gz CPANPLUS-0.9136.tar.gz
C:\> ptar zxf CPANPLUS-0.9136.tar.gz 
C:\> cd CPANPLUS-0.9136
C:\> perl bin/cpanp-boxed

CPAN Terminal> i CPANPLUS

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In reply to Re: CPANP (CPAN Plus) stopped working - help by bingos
in thread CPANP (CPAN Plus) stopped working - help by HelenCr

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